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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Kenneth Rexroth to Herbert Cahoon, San Francisco, California, 1948 May 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
446318
Accession number
MA 4733.62:2
Creator
Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982, sender.
Display Date
San Francisco, California, 1948 May 30
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.7 x 21.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Addressed to: "Herbert Cahoon / 431 Riverside Drive / #1-A / New York 25 N.Y."
Return address reads: "187 8th Ave / SF 18 Cal".
Date appears as: "30 IV 48".
Postmarked and stamped.
Noted added in Rexroth's hand at bottom right: "sorry-- / Herbert / looks like / Hubert. I prefer / you to Hubert / who thinks I / am a / rowdy."
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Thanking Herbert for "the good word"; sharing that his is “touched” by how pleased his friends have been for him after he was awarded "the fellowship" [Rexroth won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1948]; noting that he was especially touched by Ruth Stephan's wire, remarking, "She must be quite a person. Certainly she runs a lovely, if slightly dafty (a term of approval with me) magazine" [Stephan was the co-editor of The Tiger's Eye literary magazine]; updating Herbert on his plans to travel later in the year.